Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 3,000 Christians crowded into the church, the chapel and two halls of the First Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill. this week for a service the like of which the world has never seen before. In the processional marched 700 priests and patriarchs, bishops and archbishops, ministers and laymen. The Rev. Dr. Marc Boegner of France read the First Lesson (Isaiah 53) in French. Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, read the Second Lesson (Philippians 2:1-11) in Greek. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway led the recitation of the Apostles' Creed in German...
...answered Rhee's ring, Simmons announced: "This is the President of the Republic of Korea." "Oh, my," gasped the woman, "I'm a sight." She managed to invite Syngman Rhee inside with some show of hospitality, however, but since the owner of the mansion (Clark Griffith, patriarch of the Washington Senators baseball club) was not at home, Patriarch Rhee declined. Instead, he clambered through some poison ivy and inspected the house next door, where for years he waited out his Washington exile. His verdict: "It's run down...
Died. Francis Casadesus, 83, French composer (La Chanson de Paris) and patriarch of a famous family of artists, after long illness ; near Paris...
...notch closer to brother Tom Jr., 40, I.B.M. president. A graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale (class of '42), Arthur rose to major in Army Ordnance during World War II, returned to join the family company as a salesman in 1947. ¶ Donald E. Rust, 76, white-haired patriarch of the greeting-card business, was elected president and chief executive officer of United Printers and Publishers Inc., second largest U.S. greeting-card maker.-An ex-Colorado mining engineer, Rust quit his profession in 1906 to join his brother Fred in a Kansas City bookshop...
...Commandments. Like California olives, Biblical movies come in sizes ranging from mammoth up. The most mammoth of them all will certainly be The Ten Commandments, made by the patriarch of the industry's epic makers-72-year-old Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of his first big Biblical movie, made in 1923, though the present Ten Commandments is a straight biography of Moses while the older version paralleled the Bible story with a contemporary drama of lust and greed (starring Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix and Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King...